The R2 Standard is the leading certification for electronics repair and reuse. As the housing body for R2, SERI maintains the R2 Standard, related documentation, guidance, and facilitates its ongoing development.

SERI works with partners throughout the lifecycle of electronic products to ensure that they are managed responsibly. SERI's programs focus on education, outreach, safety, and international development.

SERI offers a variety of educational and training opportunities for recyclers, as well as opportunities for auditors and consultants. These trainings focus on implementing the R2 Standard, realizing a return on the investment in certification, discussing relevant issues or challenges related to recycling practices, and other topics.

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Using the proper names to identify equipment is essential to R2 conformance and legal compliance. Electronics are not commodities – processing is required to recover the various materials that will ultimately be sold as commodities. For example, it would not be accurate to classify a refrigerator as “ferrous metal” -- it is a refrigerator until the freon, plastics, and insulation are removed. Although the process of recycling a refrigerator yields ferrous metal, classifying a refrigerator as ferrous metal does not take into account the special management needed for its other hazardous compo

SERI has observed Focus Material (FM) Management Plans of many R2 Certified Recyclers that specifically name the downstream vendors in a company’s recycling chain. While this is an acceptable method of developing the FM Management Plan as long as the additional requirements of Provision 5.a are being met, it really misses an opportunity to establish the policies of your organization and enforce those policies through the downstream recycling chain.

The R2 requirement to track Focus Materials (FMs) includes whole electronic devices and components that contain FMs (circuit boards, batteries, mercury, CRT glass, and PCBs). SERI has witnessed some examples of flowcharts and lists of downstream vendors that cover FMs that have been removed from equipment, but do not list and track whole electronics and components that contain FMs.

The R2 Standard is the leading certification for electronics repair and reuse. As the housing body for R2, SERI maintains the R2 Standard, related documentation, guidance, and facilitates its ongoing development.

SERI works with partners throughout the lifecycle of electronic products to ensure that they are managed responsibly. SERI's programs focus on education, outreach, safety, and international development.

SERI offers a variety of educational and training opportunities for recyclers, as well as opportunities for auditors and consultants. These trainings focus on implementing the R2 Standard, realizing a return on the investment in certification, discussing relevant issues or challenges related to recycling practices, and other topics.